While out and about, you notice a pair of shoes that you like. Maybe they're on a shelf in a store; maybe they're by your coworker's desk on the floor. You pull out your phone, take a picture, and an app helps you track down those shoes or another si...

Chromeo wants to "bring the funk straight to your phone." The electrofunk duo are debuting their "Come Alive" music video Wednesday on music-identification app Shazam. Shazam users can play the song on the SoundCloud player, below, and then use Shaza...

LOS ANGELES -- Nominees for the 56th Grammy Awards on Sunday will be up all night to get lucky, including "Get Lucky" performers Daft Punk. But who will take home the coveted gramophone trophies? While observers continue to predict who will win, two ...

The music identification and discovery service Shazam announced a partnership with Jimmy Kimmel Live on Monday, connecting fans of the late-night show with additional content, including some free, exclusive audio downloads. On Monday's episode, when ...

Shazam on the iPad just got a whole lot better. The company launched a completely updated version of its tablet app Thursday, with a new discovery home screen, and an auto-tagging feature that can determine what music, television shows, and even ads ...

Shazam, the company best known for its eponymous music discovery app, has hired a new CEO and plans to go public in the near future. Rich Riley, the former EVP Americas for Yahoo, has joined Shazam as CEO. Shazam's previous CEO, Andrew Fisher, will n...

As consumers nationwide continue to engage with smartphones and tablets while watching TV to check everything from email to social networking sites, about 40% are surfing the mobile web to find out more information about programming. U.K.-based Shaza...

Shazam, best known as a music-identification app, is venturing deeper into the social TV sphere Monday with the expansion of its Shazam for TV second-screen experience. Shows and advertisements have already been compatible with Shazam via partnership...

Today's social community isn't what it was during the Beijing Olympics. This year's summer Olympics will be what some are calling the first "Socialympics." The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has revamped its social media policies. And those st...

Music-identification service Shazam will reach more eyeballs than ever this summer when the UK-based company's logo will frequently appear on screen during the London Olympics broadcasts. In a partnership with NBCUniversal, Shazam will encourage view...

Music-identification service Shazam has taken its users' tagging data -- the number of times people use the mobile app to find out the name or artist of a song they hear -- to predict this summer's most-popular songs. Shazam's director of music, Will...

MTV's extensive social and digital tactics for the MTV Movie Awards offer viewers new ways to engage before, during and after the June 3 live broadcast. Building off its social success with the VMAs, MTV is looking to deeply integrate social elements...

The Modern Media Agency Series is presented by IDG. As marketing budgets and priorities shift, tech vendors must embrace digital and social media to change how they relate to prospects. IDC’s Rich Vancil surveyed marketers on spending plans. Learn mo...

Shazam wants to give you another way to sing along with your favorite songs. On Friday, a version of the popular music-recognition app was announced for the new iPad. Shazam for iPad is available now in the App Store -- and it's free. The latest iPad...

The latest version of the Shazam iPhone app will recognize music, TV and advertisements "in as little as a second," according to its creators. Shazam lets users hold their iPhone Shazam up to the sound from a music speaker or TV and find out app what...

Extreme sports fans and Shazam app users planning to watch the Red Bull Supernatural snowboarding competition this month are in for a second-screen viewing treat. Here's how it will work: Fans watching the event on NBC on March 31 will occasionally b...

Viewers of this weekend's Academy Awards telecast may want to have their smatphones handy when a Tide ad comes on. If you have the Shazam app, you can download a free song from that ad. The tune, "Pop Goes the World," is a remake of a Men Without Hat...

With about 500,000 apps in the Apple App Store and an estimated 300,000 apps in the Android Market, finding the gems among the virtual haystack can be full-time job. The good news is that it's our full time job. We've trekked through the overly frivo...

Shazam, it seems, is no longer satisfied with identifying music. Now the startup wants to play it, too. A free iOS app the company launched Wednesday adds Shazam features to your phone's music library. The most interesting feature, Shazam LyricPlay, ...

Pillsbury has incorporated Shazam into its new TV campaign aimed at tech-savvy moms. The commercials can be identified by the popular smartphone app to bring exclusive content to the viewer, such as recipes and product information. The TV ads include...

When ABC starts running promos Monday night for season eight of the hit drama Grey's Anatomy, fans can unlock extra content with the Shazam smartphone apps. In the past few months, Shazam has ramped up its Shazam for TV initiative -- it could be cons...

Each day, Mashable highlights one noteworthy YouTube video. Check out all our viral video picks. Music app Shazam has teamed up with Vevo to create a special Shazam for TV-enhanced version of Lil Wayne's new video, How to Love. Shazam recently raised...

The Echo Nest has issued a challenge to music identification services like Shazam and Soundhound with the launch of Echoprint, an open-source music fingerprint service that will let any developer create comparable apps. To create this free music ID t...

Shazam, a popular mobile app that identifies music, is now investing in "Shazamable" television shows and ads. The company announced Wednesday that it had raised $32 million from Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Institutional Venture Partners and DN...

Yahoo is about to muscle further into the music business Thursday with the launch of Play by Yahoo. It's a free Android app that combines one of the best features of iTunes -- the ability to make instant playlists based on a song or a mood -- with mu...

Ever had a spirited argument over song lyrics while at a bar? Well, music recognition service Shazam aims to stop such bloodsport with a new feature called Shazam LyricPlay. Shazam LyricPlay, made possible via Shazam's acquisition of synchronized lyr...

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